Travel, Atlases, Maps and Natural History

a collection of maps and journals prepared for the r.g.s. journal. [london, 1946-1951], 8 coloured lithographed maps, various sizes, 3 loose, the rest bound in journals with extra illustrations and photographs (9)

derek hill 1916-2000, wilfred thesiger i, signed and inscribed with title on the...

Books and Manuscripts: A Summer Miscellany

From the Library of Alan Milne LAWRENCE, T.E. COLLECTION OF ENGLISH AND FOREIGN EDITIONS OF "SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM", INCLUDING: the fourth impression of the third English (first trade) edition, Jonathan Cape, August 1935, [O'Brien A042]; with the sixth impression, Cambridge printing, October 1935, dust-jacket; fourth English edition, World Books, Book Club issue, Reprint Society new edition, 1939, 2 volumes, dust-jacket, [A046]; another issue of same, 2 volumes, dust-jackets; fifth English (first cheap) edition, Jonathan Cape, 1940, dust-jacket, [A047]; sixth English edition, reset, Jonathan Cape, 1954, blue binding, [A048]; another impression, priced at 25s; seventh English (paperback) edition, Penguin in association with Jonathan Cape, 1987, twentieth impression, [A049]; copies of the ninth, tenth, eleventh and twelfth English editions; Folio Society, 2000, foreword by Wilfred Thesiger, introduction by Michael Asher, illustrations and maps, original decorated khaki cloth, slipcase, [not in O'Brien]; second American edition, Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1935, [A054]; small format edition, 1936, [A059]; De Luxe edition, Garden City Publishing Co. Incorporated, 1938, [A060]; fourth American edition, Doubleday, 1966, dust-jacket, [A062]; another copy, binding variant; Book Club edition, Atlanta: Communications and Studies Inc., 1966, [A065]; fifth American edition, Dorset Press, 1988, facsimile of 1935 Doubleday edition, in smaller format; limited edition, one of 80 copies, Mattituck, New York: Amereon House, no date; reprint of French edition, Paris: Payot, 1982, translated by Charles Mauron, original paper covers, [A070 notes]; another printing, 1989; another printing, 1991; first Romanian edition, Bucharest, 1937, bookstamp of Lord Carlow, in case; and others; 8vo (c.33 volumes) To view Shipping Calculator, please click here

lawrence, t.e. | collection of editions of "seven pillars of wisdom", c.33 volumes

English Literature, History, Science, Children’s Books and Illustrations

From the Library of Alan Milne" LAWRENCE, T.E. Collection of editions of Seven Pillars of Wisdom, The Odyssey, Crusader Castles, The Diary of T.E. Lawrence, etc., comprising: i) Collection of English and foreign editions of Seven Pillars of Wisdom, including: the fourth impression of the third English (first trade) edition, Jonathan Cape, August 1935, [O'Brien A042]; with the sixth impression, Cambridge printing, October 1935, dust-jacket; fourth English edition, World Books, Book Club issue, Reprint Society new edition, 1939, 2 volumes, dust-jacket, [A046]; another issue of same, 2 volumes, dust-jackets; fifth English (first cheap) edition, Jonathan Cape, 1940, dust-jacket, [A047]; sixth English edition, reset, Jonathan Cape, 1954, blue binding, [A048]; another impression, priced at 25s; seventh English (paperback) edition, Penguin in association with Jonathan Cape, 1987, twentieth impression, [A049]; copies of the ninth, tenth, eleventh and twelfth English editions; Folio Society, 2000, foreword by Wilfred Thesiger, introduction by Michael Asher, illustrations and maps, original decorated khaki cloth, slipcase, [not in O'Brien]; second American edition, Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1935, [A054]; small format edition, 1936, [A059]; De Luxe edition, Garden City Publishing Co. Incorporated, 1938, [A060]; fourth American edition, Doubleday, 1966, dust-jacket, [A062]; another copy, binding variant; Book Club edition, Atlanta: Communications and Studies Inc., 1966, [A065]; fifth American edition, Dorset Press, 1988, facsimile of 1935 Doubleday edition, in smaller format; limited edition, one of 80 copies, Mattituck, New York: Amereon House, no date; reprint of French edition, Paris: Payot, 1982, translated by Charles Mauron, original paper covers, [A070 notes]; another printing, 1989; another printing, 1991; first Romanian edition, Bucharest, 1937, bookstamp of Lord Carlow, in case; and others; 8vo (c.33 volumes)-- ii) Collection of editions of The Odyssey, including: second English (first trade) edition, Oxford University Press for (London:) Humphrey Milford, 1935, original blue buckram, dust-jacket, [O'Brien A144]; another issue, in brown buckram, maps on endpapers, dust-jacket; another copy, without jacket; deluxe issue, in morocco binding with T.E. Shaw facsimile signature stamped in gilt on upper cover (tipped-in: Lawrence of Arabia Memorial, 1935, [E068]), top edge gilt, decorated endpapers; second American edition (Hesperides edition), Mount Vernon, New York for Oxford University Press, 1940, one of 2500, brown cloth, [A151]; third American edition (Armed Services Edition), New York: Editions of the Armed Services Inc., 1940 [A152], wrappers; sixth American edition, New York: Oxford University Press, 1991, dust-jacket, [A154a]; 8vo and oblong 8vo (7)-- iii) Crusader Castles. The Letters. Garden City, Doubleday, Doran, 1937, 8vo, first American edition, preface by Mrs. Lawrence, ONE OF 56 COPIES PRINTED TO SECURE AMERICAN COPYRIGHT, facsimile illustrations in the text, original printed wrappers, quarter black morocco box, [O'Brien A191]-- iv) Crusader Castles. The Letters. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1937, 8vo, first American edition, text of volume 1 only of the English edition, one of 56 copies printed to secure copyright (of which 50 were for sale), original cream laid stapled wrappers printed in black, [O'Brien A191], some minor soiling to wrappers-- ﻿v) Editions of The Diary of T.E. Lawrence and An Essay on Flecker, comprising: The Diary [kept by T.E. Lawrence while travelling in Arabia in 1911]. Doubleday, Doran & Co Inc, 1937, LIMITED TO 56 COPIES TO SECURE AMERICAN COPYRIGHT (of which 50 were for sale), ink inscription inside upper cover ("Given to me by Eric Kennington 1941"), original stapled cream printed wrappers, [O'Brien A195], some slight spotting to wrappers; The Diary... Garnet, 1993, third English edition, introduction by Dr Robin Bidwell, original cloth, dust-jacket, bookplate of John E. Davis, [O'Brien A194b]; The Diary... Southampton: Hobbs for (Walton on Thames:) B. Johnston, [1990], second English edition, photographs, [O'Brien A194a]; [housed with:] An Essay on Flecker. Southampton: Hobbs for (Walton on Thames:), B. Johnston, [1990], third English edition, ONE OF 500 COPIES, introduction by Johnston and signed by him, [O'Brien A198b], these two in pale yellow pebbled paper wrappers, together in original slipcase (4 volumes in 3)

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lawrence, t.e. | collection of copies of "seven pillars of wisdom", "the odyssey", "crusader castles", etc.

Travel, Atlases, Maps and Natural History 

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES A collection of over two hundred historic photographs, c.1901 to early 1960s 218 photographs (from 130 x 175mm. to 195 x 245mm.), comprising press photographs, copy prints, and later prints (c.1990s) from original negatives, each preserved in a polyester archival sleeve, housed in two ring binders, a few prints with minor stains AN IMPORTANT COLLECTION OF HISTORIC PHOTOGRAHS OF THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES BEFORE UNIFICATION, including images of rulers and sheikhs, and views of Abu Dhabi, Lingeh, Sharjah, Ras al-Khaimah, Dubai, and Buraimi. The photographs include images by notable travellers, political agents and corporations, including Sir Percy Cox, Hermann Burchardt, H.R. Vaughan, Sir Rupert Hay, Wilfred Thesiger, Ronald Codrai, and employees of the British Indian and Russian navies, British Airways, the Iraq Petroleum Company (IPC) and British Petroleum (BP). A list of the images is available on request. LITERATURE: cf. Facey, William and Gillian Grant. The Emirates by the First Photographers (London, 1996)

united arab emirates | 218 photographs, c.1901 to 1960s

PERSIAN GULF A collection of ten books on the Middle East, comprising: Bent, J. Theodore. The Bahrain Islands, in the Persian Gulf. Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly record of Geography, (November 25th, 1889), pp. 1-19. 8vo, map, modern burgundy morocco-backed boards Berque, Jacques. The Arabs. London: Faber and Faber, 1964. 8vo, plates, red cloth, pictorial dust jacket, price-clipped Dickson, Violet. Forty Years in Kuwait. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1971. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, FIRST EDITION, 8vo, plates, orange cloth, pictorial dust jacket Gobineau, A. de. Trois ans en Asie. Paris: Hachette, 1859. FIRST EDITION, 8vo, old half vellum, marbled boards, spotting Longrigg, Stephen. The Liquid Gold of Arabia. (November 24, 1948), pp. 20-33. 8vo, folding map at end, modern burgundy morocco-backed boards Miles, Colonel S.B. Across the Green Mountains of Oman. The Geographical Journal, No. 5, November 1901, Vol. XVIII, pp. 465-498. 8vo, modern burgundy morocco-backed boards Phillips, Wendell. Oman. Beirut: Librairie du Liban, 1971. 8vo, plates, brown boards, pictorial dust jacket Thesiger, Wilfred. Arabian Sands. (London: Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd., 1959). FIRST EDITION, 8vo, plates, folding map in pocket at end, tan cloth, pictorial dust jacket Thesiger, Wilfred. The Marsh Arabs. (London: Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd., 1964). FIRST EDITION, 8vo, plates, green cloth, pictorial dust jacket Wilson, Sir Arnold T. The Persian Gulf. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1928. 8vo, folding map in rear pocket, blue cloth (10), sold not subject to return

persian gulf. a collection of ten books. 1859-1971

Travel, Atlases, Maps & Natural History

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES A collection of over two hundred historic photographs, c.1901 to early 1960s 218 photographs (from 130 x 175mm. to 195 x 245mm.), comprising press photographs, copy prints, and later prints (c.1990s) from original negatives, each preserved in a polyester archival sleeve, housed in two ring binders, a few prints with minor stains AN IMPORTANT COLLECTION OF HISTORIC PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES BEFORE UNIFICATION, including images of rulers and sheikhs, and views of Abu Dhabi, Lingeh, Sharjah, Ras al-Khaimah, Dubai, and Buraimi. The photographs include images by notable travellers, political agents and corporations, including Sir Percy Cox, Hermann Burchardt, H.R. Vaughan, Sir Rupert Hay, Wilfred Thesiger, Ronald Codrai, and employees of the British Indian and Russian navies, British Airways, the Iraq Petroleum Company (IPC) and British Petroleum (BP). A list of the images is available on request. LITERATURE: cf. Facey, William and Gillian Grant. The Emirates by the First Photographers (London, 1996)

View 1 of Lot 167: UNITED ARAB EMIRATES | 218 photographs, c.1901 to 1960s

The group includes three maps of the travels of Harry St. John Philby, a British intelligence officer, father of Kim, and surveyor who was instrumental in securing the Saudi throne for Ibn Saud (1923, 1938, 1949): three relating to Wilfred Thesiger (1947, 1949, 1957) and one by Cheesman who served as Private Secretary to Sir Percy Cox, the first High Commissioner to the newly created nation of Iraq, and later was the British Consul in North-West Abyssinia (1925).

a collection of 7 maps including travellers' routes through arabia, prepared for the r.g.s. journal. [london, 1923-1957], most coloured lithographs (one in booklet), various sizes, full detailed listing available

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